#WritingWonders
16. How comfortable are you with writing kissing and/or intimacy scenes?
I quote from my first novel: “And, Noomi and Charlemagne slept together. That is all I am going to write on the subject. No, please save your breath. There will be no florid descriptions of entwined limbs, engorged members or carnal explosions here. Let us be honest: literary depictions of human sexual activity are almost always mind-bogglingly 50 shades of dreadful. You know it’s true. There is a reason that there is an award for the worst description of sex in a novel, but there is no award for the best description of sex in a novel: even the best descriptions are awful. Even the best writers are unable to depict human sexuality in a less than cringeworthy way.”
Generally, as you might imagine, I avoid writing sex scenes (with exceptions I mentioned yesterday).
Ira Nayman /
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